| Original caption: New Soviet Burp Gun. New York: Past masters at devising light, easily constructed small arms, the Russians revised their famous 7.63-mm 1943 burp gun into this version (above), as reported in the June, 1956, issue of True magazine. Light, rugged, and simple in mechanical design, the gas-operated weapon can be set for slow or full automatic fire that would loose a 30-round burst almost instantaneously. It is said to give accurate, aimed fire up to 300 yards. The submachine gun is only one of many new weapons with which the Soviet Union has equipped it's huge army, US Army sources have disclosed. |
magazine. Light, rugged, and simple in mechanical design, the gas-operated weapon can be set for slow or full automatic fire that would loose a 30-round burst almost instantaneously. It is said to give accurate, aimed fire up to 300 yards. The submachine gun is only one of many new weapons with which the Soviet Union has equipped it's huge army, US Army sources have disclosed., © Bettmann/CORBIS, RM, Armed forces, Army, Engineering, Mid-Atlantic, New York City, New York State, Nobody, North America, Technology, USA, Visual arts" style="border-width: 0px; margin: 5px 0px 5px 5px; height: 317px; width: 640px;">